Cloud bedsheets and airline blankets

Flying against time, it is morning and then evening and then morning again in the space of a few hours. To create that artificial evening and imagined bedtime, mothers read stories to babies and toddlers pressed up against their bodies. Both are made of whispy bangs, crescent eyes and straight lashes. Stray hairs fall over their faces as they move into the artificial night and the authentic and real dream land.Cloud sheets thin out over the ocean, thirty eight thousand feet up, covering the plane and every mother, every baby and all of their shared dreams.

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4 thoughts on “Cloud bedsheets and airline blankets”

AsheX on March 2, 2012 at 3:08 pm said:

I love the way you bring out the details in everything- ” Stray hairs fall over their faces as they move into…”

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- bronwynmcbride on March 3, 2012 at 6:09 am said:
  
  Thank you so much, AsheX! I love writing about flights because it’s always so moving and interesting to be between two places. There’s a lot of emotion. I’m glad you appreciate the details in the post.
  
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Efren Yother on March 12, 2012 at 5:31 pm said:

Try, try, try, and make on trying may be the rule that really must be followed being an authority in anything.
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves few other time!

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- bronwynmcbride on March 13, 2012 at 3:13 am said:
  
  Thank you for reading, and for your writing! I hope you visit again.
  
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